BON SECOURS HEALTH SYSTEM TEAMS WITH ISH FOR LAWSON UPGRADE INITIATIVE

ISH Selected based on their leadership in the creation of BSHSI HR/Payroll Business Model

FAIRFIELD, NJ: ISH, Inc. announced today the continuation of their partnership with Bon Secours Health System, Inc. through 2008 to implement Lawson HR/Payroll applications for 3 additional local systems: Baltimore Health System, Hampton Roads Health System, and the Bon Secours Health System Office and to lead the upgrade to the new Lawson 9.0 application at 7 additional Bon Secours hospital sites where Lawson had been previously implemented.

In 2005, ISH led the creation of the HR/Payroll Business Model for Bon Secours Health System, Inc. (BSHSI), a $2.2 billion, multi-entity Catholic health care ministry, headquartered in Marriottsville, MD. Key deliverables for this project included benchmarking of current processes, recommendations for incorporating “Best Practices” through the standardization of data and business processes, plus the planning and development for the integration of the Lawson HR/Payroll suite including Manager & Employee Self Service and Lawson Dashboards into the business model.

David McCombs, Vice President of Supply Chain/ERP for Bon Secours states, “ISH has been able to define our business requirements and present options for what we need to do as a Health System to achieve our goals along with implementing these ‘Best Practices’ within our organization.”

ISH in conjunction with the BSHSI Project Team led the HR/Payroll implementation of the Charity Health System in New York State, comprised of three hospitals including St. Anthony’s Community Hospital, Bon Secours Community Hospital, and Good Samaritan Hospital. Over 5500 employees successfully went live on Lawson HR/Payroll as the pilot for the entire Health System in January of 2007. Additionally, in July of 2006, ISH led the HR/Payroll implementation of Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital (OLBH) located in Ashland, KY with over 1200 employees. OLBH ‘went live’ on Lawson HR/Payroll in January of 2007. Both projects were on time and within budget.

Ms. Sean Ballard, BSHSI Project Director for the HR/Payroll initiative stated, “ISH led us through a very complex system implementation based on Bon Secours’ unique business requirements, educating our project team members along with our local system users, and integrating this with our Time and Attendance system, Kronos Workforce. This has provided the Health System with a “model” to deploy throughout the balance of the local systems within BSHSI.”

About Bon Secours Health System:
Bon Secours Health System, Inc. based in Marriottsville, Maryland, is a $2.2 billion dollar not-for-profit Catholic health system that owns, manages or joint ventures 19 acute care, 6 long term care, 6 assisted living and independent living and other facilities, primarily on the East Coast. Bon Secours Health System consists of more than 18,000 caregivers helping people in 11 communities in nine states. Its vision is to be recognized for its leadership in justice, transforming the communities in which it serves and works into places of health and hope, and being a prophetic voice for systemic U.S. health reform and a more humane world.

About ISH, Inc.
Headquartered in Fairfield, NJ, ISH Inc is a leading national provider of ERP, Supply Chain, Finance, HR/PR, Time & Attendance, Scheduling, Perioperative, Sterile Processing, ED, EMR, Document Imaging, Interim Management as well as many other professional services for healthcare. ISH has delivered business improvement solutions and IT implementations to prominent healthcare providers throughout the nation since 1989. With a staff of over 150 professionals, an extensive best practice library developed from over 500 clients and a powerful program management methodology, ISH is positioned to deliver the results you need when you need them.

Contact: Mary Garland, 800-284-8018; ext. 336